Find your phone, lock your phone or wipe your phone, all with this startup's inexpensive service

After competing alongside 150 other startups, tektrak and nine other startups made the final cut, earning a chance to duke it out on-stage at the Highlands in Hollywood on Thursday. Each of the 10 startups was allotted three minutes to pitch their business to a panel of four investors hailing from firms like Greycroft and Rustic Canyon and, in the end, the best startup was selected by popular vote.

tektrak, a provider of phone security solutions, won that vote handily.

Maybe it’s because so many people--entrepreneurs, investors and the rest of us--can relate to the horrible experience of losing a phone. (Actually, tektrak says that 20 to 30 percent of phones are lost every year.) Today, more than ever, losing a phone has become a pretty big deal, allowing highly personal data to fall into anyone’s hands.

Available for both Android and iPhone, tektrak basically empowers you to find your phone whether it was lost or stolen. Built-in location tracking and location history means you can find the device no matter where it is. Once in the vicinity of the phone, turn on the remote ring to pinpoint its exact hiding spot.

In the meantime, some might feel a little paranoid about all their data being available so readily, which is why tektrak also lets you remotely lock or even wipe the entire device.

Want to know how legit tektrak is? Following the most recent 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that rocked Japan on March 11, a family in Tokyo, Japan used the tektrak app to locate their daughter.

Anyone can try tektrak for free two times, but if you’re more hardcore in your mobile mishaps, you’ll need to cough up $4.99 per year for tektrak pro, which allows for unlimited uses.

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TekTrak is the team behind innovative mobile security software that protects your phone and the valuable data stored within. By harnessing the powerful Assisted GPS hardware integrated in smartphones, TekTrak is insuring no one ever loses their phone and privacy again. What started out as frustrating experience of losing a phone with pictures and data, has now become a mobile tracking and security business. Our security application allows users to remotely locate their phone, lock it, send a message, set off an audible alarm, and remotely wipe the data from the device.

TekTrak is currently available on iOS and on Samsung Android-based devices, and will be available for other major platrofms within the next year.